Ridgway Potteries Ltd.

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Ridgway Potteries Ltd.

1792-present
BiographyRidgway Pottery was one of the earliest Staffordshire potteries, founded by Ralph Ridgway during 1744. However, it was in 1792, the brothers George and Job Ridgway registered Ridgway Potteries Limited at
Bell Works, North Staffordshire, England. It was here that the first type of Ridgwayware was produced.

During 1802, the pottery works that was formed by Job Ridgway was taken over by John and William Ridgway. While John Ridgway inherited the Cauldon pottery, the Bell pottery works was taken over by William Ridgway.

It was also during the 1851 exhibition that John Ridgway received a high recommendation from Her Majesty Queen Victoria. The exhibition catalogue states that Ridgway was ‘one of the largest and among the best conducted of the many factories of Staffordshire’. John was later appointed as the official potter to the royalty. The Ridgway pottery also set up a scholarship with the School of Design and which is functional even today.

-Ben Allen

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